Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Morality, too, is a question of time.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.